mali insurgency should stop avoiding full songs for its military campaign against them as fears grow western nations are getting bogged down in a conflict which resulted from previous military involvement in the region. history repeating itself so she is up for the end of the u.s. military involvement if they get on board american veterans question the country's current foreign policy leading to similar interventions and more lives and money lost. in office and germans are getting ready for a legal fight with the e.u. central bank angered over plans which will see no control of the bin laden's money flowing into kabul stay on.

international news live for most of this is all see was me. and welcome to the program man the islamist militants have issued a warning to france saying it's opened the gates of hell by intervening in the country despite being bombarded by french warplanes since friday to help the government islamist insurgents controlling the north have managed to grab more territory recently on the u.s. are supporting the french operation raising fears of an african quagmire and a new front in the war on terror that seems to stem from the west's previous military involvement in the region also his point of boycott explains. well britain and the u.s. are reportedly providing help with transport and communications and logistics to

that means that they're providing transport and planes to help carry troops however we've also heard the u.s. is providing some very limits drones in order to track the movements of the rebels in northern mali and of course it's not just britain and the u.s. now we've heard that a number of other european countries including denmark pledging their support for the french military offensive in the region so it is growing quite quickly and by sunday we've already had hundreds of french military personnel taking part in operation officials say that french as strikes are targeting rebel forces rebel strongholds and logistical points however human rights groups are already counting a number of civilian casualties with three children dead since friday and of course this is quite a departure from francois alarms promise to kind of step away from the very paternalistic ties that fronts used to have with. bunny's in fact for all their differences with nicolas sarkozy he's been just as quick to jump into military

military intervention in mali as nicolas sarkozy was to jump into a military intervention in libya two years ago so a lot of political experts saying that it could be a way of trying to ratchet up his political polls and his approval ratings because apparently those have been plummeting and is that he was elected as president last year while the north of mali has been under the control of islamic militant groups that have links to al qaida for almost a year now and it's an area the size of france they've imposed shari'a law that so a stance simply it's a response to the mali government's request for help in trying to sort of hold back these rebel advances of going further into mali but of course many experts are linking this crisis to sort of the libyan legacy and what happened in libya because the toric people who traditionally came from northern mali they actually made up a large portion of moammar gadhafi as army in libya and after the very brisk

military intervention that to topple gadhafi many of these toerags actually returned to their native northern mali they took with them a lot of weapons and a lot of gadhafi military arsenal has kind of uncontrollably been flowing into mali now and a lot of experts are just saying that this is a real consequence of what happened in libya france has pledged that the military campaign in mali will be a short one but journalist and contributor to the british gone to newspaper neil clark believes there's a high chance was some polish will be trapped in the african country. so back to the first world war that was going to be over by christmas we have the vietnam war was only going to last a few months even and that lasted for many years and of course the afghanistan where you which the war they're still ongoing after twelve years or so so i think there is a real danger that this is a sort of a trap the transform into and they say that will be over in days or weeks and i

think we could be talking more about months actually intervening in mali we've already heard that civilian casualties are taking place obviously this is going to intense because there are certain groups there and there is a great danger that terrorist campaigns will come back to france so i think this is a very mistaken policy by hollande he is extremely unpopular he's only been in power less than a year and i think that the contradictions are here again because al-qaeda groups are all equal the islamic rebels in syria to get france well on you taking a very aggressive line in trying to topple the syrian government and it doesn't seem to mind that he's backing islamic militants in syria and yet he's he's making out this is the biggest disaster face of the islamic militants come to power in mali and london based political acts of his until recent lanes the volatile seasons in nations like mali on the military efforts of the nato countries. in the middle east the constant attentions of the imperial power generation after generation worsened the problem not made it better i'm surprised that they don't bore

themselves by repeating this line we heard it over afghanistan we heard it over iraq we heard it over libya and we should recall that right at the beginning of this process more than a decade ago the head of the security services in britain warned the then prime minister tony blair that the intervention in afghanistan and iraq would spread the threat of terrorism not reduce it that warning has proved sadly absolutely correct there was no al qaeda in iraq before we invaded there it's not al-qaeda had not spread to pakistan in the way that it has now since the invasion of afghanistan and the intervention in libya has led directly to the spread of al-qaeda in mali and we should at least have learnt by now but this is not the way in which you reduce the threat of terrorism which is actually a way in which you both straight in which you increase attractiveness to young people in the region it is something that identify with it's been four decades

since the us was. meant in a war that cost size dearly financially and physically the price paid was too high for similar mistakes to be repeated that as a park ny explains washington's foreign policy in recent years is making many doubt if the lessons were properly. sixty one year old ken dolls and is a husband father and retired firefighter four decades ago he was a member of the u.s. navy serving in vietnam every year we were there every day was like nine eleven for those people every day was nine eleven the work killed an estimated three million vietnamese and more than fifty eight thousand americans the u.s. stepped in on the side of south vietnam in its fight against the communist back north which was seeking to unify the country on january fifteenth one nine hundred seventy three thousand excess announced the end of offensive operations against

north vietnam a military crusade that would lead to become a foreign policy benchmark for washington to never repeat the primary lesson that the us foreign policy establishment should have learned from vietnam and i don't think they'd learn from. is that they cannot in spite of the fact that they have great military supremacy go in and just destroy a government occupy a country and remold their country so that it becomes a proxy or a client of the united states forty years and six presidents later critics say washington has done a better job at repeating mistakes rather than learning from them we still keep getting these these awful wars or interventions and other countries. i mean it's well imperialism you're not going to win we didn't win in iraq. within women the afghanistan gracefully and leaving their with their lives and the same thing is like a vietnam we didn't win the one absolutely nothing and you know and they just don't

get it we've tried to rule the world we've tried to do it in not only in a way that's been damaging devery nation the world but in the process the united states has become less and less gray it's become less and less economically viable and with each passing decade the war has generated more and more profit for the u.s. military industry i topic r t just. done well. we've created a huge infrastructure global infrastructure where we're trying to be the world's policeman when it comes to america's security republican senator chuck hagel has been nominated to replace leon panetta hazel would be the first vietnam vet to ever head the u.s. department of defense when i was in vietnam in one nine hundred sixty eight united states senators making decisions that affected my life. and

a lot of people who lost their lives that they didn't have i didn't have anything to say about someone needs to represent that perspective it's in our government as well that people in washington make the policy but it's the little guys who come back in the body but since two thousand and one an estimated sixty six hundred u.s. soldiers have returned from iraq or afghanistan in body bags and last year suicides by american soldiers surged to three hundred and forty nine historic high the u.s. military has had decades of experience in areas like asia latin america the middle east and africa however experts say if leaders in washington don't begin learning from the past the only foreign policy factor that will continue changing is the geo graphic location of america's faith holidays and repeated mistakes reporting from new york or in a portland arts. and still ahead for you this hour i made mounting. a

court in the u.s. drops its piracy charges against prominent internet speed them up because our schwartz who took his own life on friday. is the u.s. really that nervous about china's nuclear arsenal two also one is a potential strike or is it just trying to keep its own atomic store in time we'll bring you an expert opinion on that in just a few of. those further turbulence in bahrain where another peaceful rally has been brutally despised by security forces to crowds gathered at the funeral of a protester who was poisoned by tear gas at a previous demonstration approaches have been going on for almost two years now in the gulf war like a human rights activists claim dozens have been killed as the regime keeps cracking down on the opposition and asked not darwish is one of them and she describes how she was personally targeted with yoga. the hearing has been using tear gas

canisters or as i like to call it toxic gases against citizens even in their houses not even protestant and the streets in a person an experience that happened to me and division with me is that i am nearly nine months pregnant and just now before few hours of this interview our house was like targeted by pure gas canisters and this men stormed into the house. that that effect of a tear gas excessive use of tear gas that is being thrown into the houses expect people i can use tens of months ago we have been stressing gone they have amount of kyrgyz as being used in these densher areas and houses and against a peaceful process and do we are very disappointed at the international community reaction specie the u s and the key position and toured the bahrain your

delusion. being being an ally and applying double standards when it comes to dealing with this situation in. and you can also logon to altie dot com to get more eyewitness accounts from the streets and bahrain as was been dubbed a forgotten revolution continues to unravel that and also online. washington's military aid for rebels in congo may boost the conflict with militants no sweating to quote a cease fire deal salty dog would go expert opinion on how and why they do us is expanding its war with a war torn region. on the world famous violinist and some may prove her skills on the stage but now she wants to join the cream of the sporting world online recalled the details of the discipline in which she plans to snatch gold at the twenty fourteenth century amid pegs. there's always more news is

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amman and i'm. going on our mind i'm a little. i. welcome back to zero as justice department has dropped charges against the lazy internet freedom activist irish once they turned a six year old committed suicide on friday who phrase decades behind bars other accusations illegally downloaded academic documents for public use the department's

decision came after schwartz his family are pleased prosecutors of being complicit in his dads and tens of thousands of internet users express support for the claim and for clinch an item on top renowned found on the swedish pirate party says almost all information should be free to whoever wants it you could easily say that for instance military secrets or medical journals should not be free to distribute because it involves privacy by those national security but in terms of access to knowledge access to public so the public documents and records and source certainly committed not no crime and that even goes with the law so what the federal prosecution did was instead throw the book at him in the way that had been obtained in terms of how he had walked into the technical university mit in the united states and set up a laptop to download these public document public documents so they were throwing

the book at him to make an example out of spreading knowledge and i think that is a terrible terrible thing to do sharing and spreading knowledge was never. and john the standoff like kevin got stolen believes the u.s. wrongly focuses an x. if it's like fools when there is real criminals at the news shorts is some buddy who had this inclination that information is power and that you shouldn't be able to treat it just as a commodity that copyright hawks shouldn't just be able to keep this information guarded if if it's available to the world then everyone could be a lot smarter in the united states we've seen a focus on internet activists as of late and i shouldn't necessarily unique to united states but what is remarkable is that there are criminals in the united states that could be prosecuted like bankers there are people who have engaged in real crimes like torture but it seems like the justice department in the united

states has more interested it has more interest in going after people or people like schwartz i say you need is news and concentrate more on proselyte as some bond to that plans may come from the union purple house germany thousands have signed a petition against the so-called european stability mechanism which would allow the block to directly aid troubles states. only reports germans are getting increasingly disappointed with the government's love affair with the. there's a rising feeling here in germany that it's not the germans who will be in charge of their country. you're wrong with the government has taken the sovereign rights of the german people and given them away to bureaucrats in brussels specifically with regards to currency this is a painful injury to the sovereignty of germany the issue is said to be fought out in the second tightest court this group calling themselves the civil coalition

movement want to stop germany's fiscal future being decided by the european central bank particularly how much german cash goes to the eurozone countries and set the prep to democracy because it's no longer the governments who have to make a policy but is the european central bank deciding which policy is paid for over five thousand people back their petition as they look to challenge one of the most common pieces of perceived wisdom in europe that germany is the success story in the eurozone and this is one of the biggest heiress and in the whole discussion saying that germany was the one who had the biggest benefits. and there was no other country which had so little benefits out of the euro if you come to look to the numbers according to their legal team those numbers showed germany being forced to pay for the euro zone countries despite this not being part of the deal and the

single currency was created to finance isn't the only place where germans feel a grip is slipping one former german foreign minister gave different reasons why they may be issues with sovereignty suggesting that they have their root in the memory of the country's past we have problems with. those germans still sometimes the sovereign enough sometimes we shy back from our rest. the beauty is our room streets this is the problem not that we are pressed from the outside defense is also a concern for those who believe germany is losing control of its sovereignty the country is still home to nato bases over twenty years after the end of the cold war germany today faces no major military threats nor does any european state and that's why this gigantic military machine that the americans have built up is

completely unlike christic there appear to be historical cultural and economic reasons why some germans feel less sovereignty is disappearing and for a group of lawyers getting ready for their legal battle with the european central plank twenty thirty looks set to be an important year what they see is the fight to return german rule to the german people these are all over i t berlin and stay tuned for the latest edition of the kaiser report as marx and stacey expose those causing financial rollercoasters on both sides of that line to the program is coming up next. there possibility of a nuclear attack against china is now part of u.s. law according to a pentagon authorization act signed by the american president the law orders

a thorough report on the underground tunnels believed to hold beijing's atomic also noles and on washington's capability to strike at them. it's not the fear of china's growing military might that's behind such legislation. i don't think that we have to look at this current context bridgeport in the context of they're going to move in with a nuclear strike right at this this point but i think it has to be seen as a wider part of the u.s. nuclear policy that's been stretching out for decades now trying to come up with ways to justify the existence of some of the u.s. is the existing nuclear arsenal and looking for ways to create new weapon this is so for example we have to be sixty one dash eleven nuclear bunker busters that live within four hundred killer time yield that they've been harboring and talking about for in the better part of a decade now in relation to iran and trying to bust through into iran's new for underground nuclear facilities or alleged nuclear facilities now they're just shifting that rhetoric over to the asia pacific as part of this age of pacific pivot i think to a certain extent this is just to justify the existence of the u.s.

arsenal in to make sure that things like the new start the strategic arms reduction treaty basically get scuttled before it really gets off the ground and there's a lot in this new n.d.a. that really seeks to undermine the president's ability should he ever want to to actually reduce the nuclear stockpile so i think the congress is definitely trying to get their foot in the door and start any type of arms reductions before it can actually be implemented and let's not check some other international news and brief clashes between police and anti-government protesters have erupted near the parliament building in the pakistani capital in the building in the town islam about cleric country have called for the current government to step down the for the morning. that deadline says past times of thousands of demonstrators have flocked to the campus so demanding sweeping government reforms and an immediate crime down on corruption. a train has derailed south of cairo killing nineteen and injuring not a hundred it was carrying young on they were person this out of the country to that

place have said it is egypt's railways have a poor social record last november more than fifty people were killed most of them children want to train crashed into a school bus. treasury secretary timothy geithner says the u.s. debt ceiling could be reached as early as mid february which would lead to sovereign default raising the boring limit would also be an issue as the republican party continues to strictly oppose any additional spending just last december congress struggled to find a compromise to avoid an automatic tax increase that implementation's cause the fiscal cliff. and later this hour. on the u.s. treasury new boss i'm told the media has been distracting attention from the real problems ahead and here's a preview. obama's chief of staff jack lew is moving on up and of

course the media has been all over the most controversial aspect of his record coming to a dollar bill near you this parody of a signature the treasury secretary's signature you see appears on all federal reserve notes dollar bills issued during his tenure here is jack lew's signature it really is and here is what jack lew's signature would look like a dollar bill ha ha ha ha now according to corporate media the biggest dirt on mr lewis is new the signature apparently the most interesting thing they can dredge up is that his handwriting sucks but of course is all just one giant distraction from who he is really so who is jack lew. what for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like that i'm told.

so that's coming for you right after this short break. for. yet another tragic shooting right on the streets of the capital is again cause to open the gun debate across the nation now all the talking heads are saying that you got to take away the guns to be safe well the problem is that the shooting happened right on the streets of the capital of a country where the guns have already been taken away paris france three kurdish women one of whom was a kurdish separatist party co-founder were shot dead the scene of the crime was right outside of a cursed institute which leads the police to think that it was an assassination you see when it comes to terrorism drug cartels in the mafia you can make all the gun

laws that you want but the bad guys will still have plenty of guns because they live outside the law al qaeda and mexican drug cartels don't go to the stores and patiently wait for their background checks to be done before they buy their guns taking away all the guns through legal means won't matter there will still be murder and there will still be armed thugs and terrorists but that's just my opinion. you get. to go. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how badly when i don't. i mean. i really. really miss. him very closely

the. worst. white house of a. minute. what's going to get you never seen anything like this until. you get. i'm happy martin this is breaking this set so in light of the recent epidemic of rape going on in india the absolute disregard for women from the police force there the people of india decided to take a stand recently over six hundred guitarist and darjeeling gathered together to play john lennon's imagine a memorial tribute to the twenty three year old gang rape victim the concept behind this was to imagine in india where women didn't have to live in fear or subject to ridicule first.